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This book introduces the concept of 'knowledge alchemy' to capture
the generic process of transforming mundane practices and policies
of governance into competitive ones following imagined global gold
standards. Using examples from North America, Europe and Asia, it
explores how knowledge alchemy increasingly informs national and
institutional policies and practices on economic performance,
higher education, research and innovation. The book examines how
governments around the world have embraced global models of
world-class university, human capital and talent competition as
essential in ensuring national competitiveness. Through its
analysis, the book shows how this strongly future-oriented and
anticipatory knowledge governance is steered by a surge of global
classifications, rankings and indicators, resulting in numerous
comparisons of various domains that today form more constraining
global policy scripts.
Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods
explores how scholars of public administration and institutional
politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual
particularities of their research problems and considering the use
of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an
introduction to central themes of public administration and related
traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach
for studying public institutions.
Public Administration: Research Strategies, Concepts, and Methods
explores how scholars of public administration and institutional
politics can improve their analysis by focusing on the contextual
particularities of their research problems and considering the use
of multiple theories and methods. The book functions as an
introduction to central themes of public administration and related
traditions of research, but also proposes a new pluralist approach
for studying public institutions.
Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central
elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly
measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of
indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national
attributes have been evaluated under international comparative
assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking,
first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities
all over the world to improve their performance in global
competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism
for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and
shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological
solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes
a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance
by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and
subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of
measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation
and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are
becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products,
nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the
field of global measurement.
Higher education and innovation policies are today seen as central
elements in national economic competitiveness, increasingly
measured by global rankings. The book analyses the evolution of
indicator-based global knowledge governance, where various national
attributes have been evaluated under international comparative
assessment. Reflecting this general trend, the Shanghai ranking,
first published in 2003, has pressured governments and universities
all over the world to improve their performance in global
competition. More recently, as global rankings have met criticism
for their methodology and scope, measurements of various sizes and
shapes have proliferated: some celebrating novel methodological
solutions, others breaking new conceptual grounds. This book takes
a fresh look at developments in the field of knowledge governance
by showing how emerging indicators, innovation indexes and
subnational comparisons are woven into the existing fabric of
measurements that govern our ideas of higher education, innovation
and competitiveness. This book argues that while rankings are
becoming more numerous and fragmented, the new knowledge products,
nevertheless, tend to reproduce ideas and practices existing in the
field of global measurement.
This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. It has
spread all over the world and its institutional development is
increasingly being governed transnationally. Initially an
institution of administrative law, the ombudsman has become a human
rights institution and institution of good governance. These
ideational shifts have influenced the global diffusion of the
ombudsman but also the way in which this institution of
accountability functions. The ombudsman is a peculiar institution
of public accountability - both an institution and individual -
that observes changes in the general political climate and engages
in renegotiations of its intra-institutional position. The global
models associated with the ombudsman are a source of organizational
ideas, legitimacy, and sense of orientation, but they treat
institutional actors differently, working also as mechanisms of
inclusion and exclusion. The book tracks the global diffusion and
institutional evolution of the ombudsman. Its chapters on
institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history
of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in
Finland, and the European Ombudsman.
This book explores the ombudsman as a global institution. It has
spread all over the world and its institutional development is
increasingly being governed transnationally. Initially an
institution of administrative law, the ombudsman has become a human
rights institution and institution of good governance. These
ideational shifts have influenced the global diffusion of the
ombudsman but also the way in which this institution of
accountability functions. The ombudsman is a peculiar institution
of public accountability - both an institution and individual -
that observes changes in the general political climate and engages
in renegotiations of its intra-institutional position. The global
models associated with the ombudsman are a source of organizational
ideas, legitimacy, and sense of orientation, but they treat
institutional actors differently, working also as mechanisms of
inclusion and exclusion. The book tracks the global diffusion and
institutional evolution of the ombudsman. Its chapters on
institutional cases further explore the joint institutional history
of the Parliamentary Ombudsman and the Chancellor of Justice in
Finland, and the European Ombudsman.
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional
governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in
the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral
hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional
inter-governmental institutions has kept the peace, but produced
episodes of crisis from overstretching jurisdictions, thematically
and geographically. Polarization between nationalist and
integrative forces has displaced the idealistic aspirations of
prior decades to build the rule of law and deter violence.
Academics and policy makers will learn from the various legal and
political efforts to integrate supranational and inter-governmental
agencies with national political systems.
This book examines the political and legal challenges of regional
governance of the 28 countries of the European Union and the 48 in
the Council of Europe. The contributions, dilemmas, and moral
hazards from this record of nearly seven decades of regional
inter-governmental institutions has kept the peace, but produced
episodes of crisis from overstretching jurisdictions, thematically
and geographically. Polarization between nationalist and
integrative forces has displaced the idealistic aspirations of
prior decades to build the rule of law and deter violence.
Academics and policy makers will learn from the various legal and
political efforts to integrate supranational and inter-governmental
agencies with national political systems.
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